Mount Greylock Regional School presents 'Arsenic and Old Lace'

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Mount Greylock Regional School presents "Arsenic and Old Lace" in the school’s auditorium at 1781 Cold Spring Road in Williamstown. Performances are May 8 and 9 at 7 p.m.

According to a press release:

Charity. Hijinks. Murder. When Abby and Martha Brewster take it upon themselves to put lonely men out of their misery, their nephew Mortimer is forced to cover their tracks. Adding to the chaos are Mortimer’s brother who thinks he’s Teddy Roosevelt, another brother who’s a dangerous criminal, and a doctor named Einstein, but not the one you’re thinking of. Will Mortimer save his sweet, elderly aunts from spending their remaining days behind bars? Can he save his own engagement to his sweetheart, Elaine? Find out in this fast-paced, zany comedy that proves the only thing scarier than death is family.

The play was written by Joseph Kesselring and directed by Mount Greylock senior Frances Evans. Annaly Babb-Guerra is the faculty adviser.

Show tickets must be purchased online — $9 for adults, $6 for senior citizens and $4 for nondistrict students — and are available by visiting https://gofan.co/app/school/MA13751, scanning the QR code on show posters, or paying with credit card at the door.

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Williamstown Select Board Plans Off-Camera Evaluation of Town Manager

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
05:24AM / Friday, October 09, 2026

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Select Board plans to take extraordinary measures to avoid having its discussion of the town manager's performance recorded by the town's Public, Educational and Government cameras.

At its Sept. 28 meeting, the board decided to hold a special meeting in a room not covered by WilliNet cameras to complete its annual evaluation process of Town Manager Robert Menicocci.

Chair Peter Beck said that while the evaluation is "absolutely" to be conducted in an open meeting, the board could follow a process similar to the off site, unrecorded meetings that past Select Boards have characterized as "retreats," a term not contemplated by or included in the commonwealth's Open Meeting Law.

The current board met on June 29 for what it characterized as a "planning session" where no formal votes were taken. That meeting was held outside of Town Hall, at the new fire station on Main Street, in a room equipped with audio and video recording equipment that the Select Board chose not to use.

At the Sept. 28 meeting, one board member indicated that an unrecorded meeting was preferable to discuss the annual evaluation of the one town employee supervised by the board.

"I'd like to do it without all the Willinet stuff," Stephanie Boyd said in a discussion toward the end of a two-hour meeting. "I think it's more conducive to conversation."

With the board expected to meet just once in October — its "regular" meeting date coincides with Indigenous Peoples Day on Oct. 12 — Beck suggested that the panel could find a date for a special meeting, suggesting the third Monday of the month, Oct. 19.

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